La Nef des dames vertueuses (1503) by Symphorien Champier, a Lyon humanist and physician, is a feminist apologia consisting of four books: a collection of biographies of famous women, a treatise on marriage, a study of the prophecies of the sibyls, and an essay on Platonic love.
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